Yet MORE Andrew Oliver, amateur music critic extraordinaire

YET Another ARMCHAIR COUCH POTATO music review

Dusty Springfield Reflections DVD:

19 Classic Performances
The Late English Diva extraordinaire

Each track rated on a seven point scale as:- (1) Truly great song: (2) Great song: (3) Good
song: (4) Technical merit pass: (5) Filler: (6) Terrible song: (7) Sehr langweilig: Together
with notes and cultural allusions, to better criticise great music and pan terrible music, in the
hope that the great artists of the future do, forevermore, keep up the good work
1. Wishin And Hopin
Technical merit pass.
Wishin and hopin and beggin and prayin Dusty, perhaps thenabouts a nice religious girl, the lyrics so well
crafted, such romantic love: boy meets girl in the lounge bar The instrumentals a bit hum drum, so 1950s
The passive subtexts suggest England early 1950s, rationing just ended, winter smogs, Tories returned to power, the
war with its wild social life firmly and deliberately forgotten We are not amused, triumphant: the partial return of
the Victorian era
2. I Only Want To Be With You
Great song.
Picking him out. Singling him out in the crowd. The Look. Noticing the noticer. Interiority infinite depth searches.
The brain singularities react into coupled harmonic syncing as the timed automata disk drive read-write heads of the
memory of the galactic singularity the race memory of the critters on the galactic fruit sort out their dependency
networks in another multi-way-merge-sort thereof. The heat side effects covered up with blusher as always. This
merge sort usually adds to the well ordering of the useful knowledge. The losing or gaining a few bit fractions of
information, well, thats what couples tiffs are
3. Losing You
Good song.
A sad song, of loss, jaded remembrance, overlaid with second order retained love: a man not scorned, rather atop a
pedestal! The letters tied up with ribbon the photo stashed with the cinema ticket stubs. Lost, not dumped.
A song perhaps telling of a premarital affair. Perhaps hoping that, the world being other than it is: the dim hope, of
renewed love, renewed passion

4. Whats It Gonna Be
Great song.
Dusty all made up for the camera. Slightly older and wiser. Melodrama escalating to import. Lyrics start. Whats it
gonna be? Please tell me. Us. Whats the future hold? The Man Who Knew, Edgar Wallace, frenemy of the
newspaper clairvoyants, they that wunna publish his racing tips ...
Then astarts jarring instrumentals. Seems they dont agree. Reprised at end house, Whats it gonna be?!!
Commentary Petula Clark, a bittersweet song.
Or Tommy and Tuppence, The Secret Adversary, to quote Agatha:Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots
more. And a damned good sport too. Tommy?
- OR, PERCHANCE To all those who lead monotonous lives, in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and
dangers of adventure. The books dedication 1922.
5. I Think Its Going To Rain Today
Filler.
A sad song, of devastation, of loss, a rainy day that ruined something ever so precious. Musical interlude. A song so
sad it verges on depressing. A song of hopeless loss Loss irretrievable, why eat, why live ????
6. Son Of A Preacher Man
Truly great song.
Larry Nivens Protector. In another universe, one of many in the multiverse, the universe in which James Blish
exorcises a whole planet, A Case Of Conscience, the Royal Count, older and wiser, with no male issue, devastated,
acancered, afinds only living reles to be distant cousins sent as seed to the backup of the origin system: Galaxy 1-1-0,
under supervision of Galaxy 1-0-1, Andromeda, to seed its backup-history-attempt to set up corrupt Glass Authority
Recapture believe or not believe of The Intergalactic Aristo Admin Sealed Off Moonbase Family Tree Recording
System
Melodramatics aplenty must be day dreaming again
The tax increase the lodgment fees Bribes, banknotes included with the return, to grease the palms
The church point, asheltering from the wicked collectors, demanding gold for the kings army
What to think, when and where did this song get awritten? Whose original idea?
Transferred epithets anyone?
7. You Dont Have To Say You Love Me
Sehr langweilig.
Too Adagio for my liking. A song of possession. Of a women possessed, by custom or marriage, silence gives
consent.
Doesnt work for me.

8. A Brand-New Me
Good song.
A haunting voice, contrived breathless, suggestive of repressed desperate love. Music to match.
9. I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
Great song.
Commentary. Seems Dustys a bottle blonde, enhanced eyelashes too.
Wonderment. How to proceed. What to do? Melodramatic diversions, lies and dissemblement. Wonderment
reprised.
I close my eyes and count to ten. Who is it, descending from the clouds?
The Great Satan? The Lord Jesus? The Great Prophet Zarquon? The Prince Of Darkness Incarnate?
Caution. Await developments. See how the lord of the heavens behaves. For good or evil, for us or them, the divas
and chanteuses and songstresses? The chefs and waiters?
What side are you on, mesdames et messieurs?
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Perfect ten. What every low class Oxbridge swot without contacts really wants. To break into the top jobstream.
10. Since I Fell For You
Good song.
A woman whos followed her beau. Half way round the world. Perhaps drop-shotted from the universe above the
universe: shes from the example galaxy, before the big crunch, before the big bang: said big crunch occurred when
the whole universe got pushed off the shelf during the intergalactic top 50 countdown on intergalactic cable TV
What else can one say? Quantum mechanics and the observer? The interuniverse algebraic hyperspace? The
hyperseparability of hyperspace?
Hopeful gleeful loving desire unbound
11. How Can I Be Sure
Great song.
Whereever I am away from you my alibi
How can I be sure?
Certainly the religious attitude. Must be ever so nice. Did not Bertrand Russell tell us that knowledge and certainty
are disjoint. Sure As.
For her sake, hope its not dashed on the rocks, the ship never coming in

12. Aint No Mountain High Enough

Great song.
A duet with Engelbert Humperdinck.
to keep me from getting to you, babe
Inseparable lovers. Joined at the soul. Soulmates. Till death us do part type love.
So rare and unusual now, marriage for love to friends forever
13. Spooky
Truly great song.
A la Agatha Christies Halloween Party. 1969. Teen dating. Telephone technique.
In the cool of the evening, when everything is getting kinda groovy,
Call me up, ask me, would I like to go with you and see a movie,
First I say no, Ive got some plans for the night,
And then I stop, and say alright Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little boy like you
Dimension doors to love. Love is derivative, though.
Essential dimension door to friendship, perhaps? Reciprocality and mutuality
The events with zero probability. Spooky. Does Dusty believe merely in spontaneity? The psychologists situationthink? Or is she a believer? The higher plane friends forever making the effort mending fences
Events with zero probability density. Inherently non-linear. The arrow of time, that rational divisible force, gainsaid
by the dense real three space. The vector cross product space, its complex sub-planes, can it be that syncing of the
souls can really occur, that true friendship existed prior to orchestrated matchmaking?
Perhaps, tis said, the old ways were best The high road less travelled
Redheads click better if at all???? Suspect shes a Scot, then?
14. I Wanna Be A Free Girl
Good song.
I was there when dreams came true.
The daydream The brief tiredness, the dropping off, the mirage, the later hearing of the close ones passing, the
derivative chains of consciousness The tree of life, the tree of the mammals, the higher and lower species, the
schools of big and little fish, the plant kingdom
The way life its

15. Lost
Good song.
Lost In Space a Penny for your thoughts
Love that is not negotiable. The nexus breaks, that deal-breaker of heart-wrenching power
Confesses to Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette OBrien! My Great Rock Discography says 16 th April 1939, too!
16. People Get Ready
Good song.
All you need is faith. Winners supposed to have confidence. To believe. Agenda doubt the road to ruin.
They that win win hearts and minds. They that lose lose their way. The father figures of doubt and folly beset those
who begin to wonder. The people versus Ready Set Go
17. The Look Of Love
Great song.
Jean Paul Sartres favourite test phrase - The Look - his funding agency so to speak
The poverty of his thought. The richness of Albert Camus
Such melancholia telling of sad endings or, perhaps, achievement in the face of adversity
18. Upside Down
Great song.
Believe this were Diana Rosss from the dialectical process Motown Records Production Team
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Just joking. A great cover of a great song.

A duet with Tom Jones.
19. Quiet Please. Theres A Lady On Stage
Good song.
Stage Fright, NOT. Asking for audience respect, not the spring chicken of the 1960s, a song recorded for her DVD
swansong, turn that final page, put your hands together, applaud the band and send Dusty off to immortal DVD glory
And so on and so forth